Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!karl
From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer #)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: the how and why of plugging holes
Keywords: security cliques lists
Message-ID: <2232@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 15 Nov 88 20:42:31 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <12081@dscatl.UUCP> <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <869@hdr.UUCP>
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In article <869@hdr.UUCP>, eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
> Ha!  You assume, of course, that all vendors fit the criterion for being
> on the security mailing list.  Unless one of the "Good 'Ol Boys/Girls" in
> the Security Cabal happens to work for the vendor, that probably won't
> occur.

Yeah, I got the application for the Andrew Burt-moderated list, which said
basically that PC guys and BBS operators needn't even bother applying, this
when BBSes are probably the most often attacked computers of all.

Also, given the size of the mailing list, the number of sites the mailings
must go through, and the attractiveness of the list for, er, crackers, about
guarantees that the list will fall into the "wrong hands" -- while security
measures keep it out of a lot of the "right hands."
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